NOCTUA NUMERIA. Alis fuscis, anticis vittâ longitudinali albâ, anticè
strigis undulatis transversis; posticis maculâ externâ albâ. (Expans.
Alar. 2 unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Phalæna (Noctua) Numeria, _Drury, App. vol._ 2.
HABITAT: Jamaica.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ filiform. Tongue spiral. Head, thorax, and abdomen
fine brown. Anterior wings fine brown, through the middle of which runs a
small longitudinal bar of white or pearl, beginning just below the
shoulders, and losing itself just below the tips. Above this bar the
wings are watered with various marks of dark and light brown. Behind it
they are of a darker shade, except a spot near the middle of a yellowish
brown. Posterior wings dark brown, with two white marks on the edges,
about a third of an inch long; beginning on the anterior edge, and
crossing the corner to the external edge.
_Under Side._ Breast, legs, abdomen, and wings greyish brown or russet,
with some faint, dark indented lines running across all the wings in
different parts. The white marks on the edges of the posterior wings are
very visible on this side. The wings are entire.